J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A very similarly carved stone head of a bodhisattva with ribbon-tied diadem from the collection of Arthur M. Sackler is illustrated by Munsterberg in Sculpture of the Orient, New York, 1972, p. 87.

Compare also the standing figure of a crowned bodhisattva similarly carved from reddish sandstone, from the Collection of Eduard von der Heydt, now in the Rietberg Museum, illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition at the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, Das Herz der Erleuchtung: Buddhistische Kunst in China 550-600 (The Heart of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art in China 550-600), Köln, 2009, pp. 98-101, described as late 6th century, from Shanxi province. The same figure of a bodhisattva from the Rietberg Museum was previously illustrated by Sirén, Chinese Sculptures in the von der Heydt Collection, Zurich, 1959, pp. 92-93, no. 26, where the author describes it as a “… typical example of the Buddhist sculpture which flourished in Southern Shanxi, in the neighborhood of Ping-yang and Lu-an, during the Northern Chi and the beginning of the Sui era.”